(03-27-2020 01:35 PM)vandiver49 Wrote: (03-27-2020 01:26 PM)Attackcoog Wrote: (03-27-2020 12:10 PM)PlainTiger Wrote: We have to weigh the potential economic collapse vs. the potential healthcare system collapse. There's a balance there somewhere and obviously we are having trouble finding it.
Regardless of whether it's now, or a month from now, or 6 months from now, etc. - everyone is going to get exposed to this virus.
This is kinda where Im at. The "it just the flu people" are simply wrong. On the other hand--as Trump has said, the cure cant be worse than the long term damage. The intial crash closing of everthing was probably prudent--but now we need to figure out how to strike a better balance going forward with a much more informed public. This is going to be up to the public to be smart. It they continue to exercise great care once we open more of the economy---I think it will be ok---especially once we have beefed up the healthcare system ICU capacity.
The 'just the flu' folks weren't talking about the hospitalizations, but the yearly deaths caused by the flu and how nonplussed as a society we are by them.
Kinda This.
Us so-called "just the flu" people, of which I am one, never said it wouldn;t kill some people, but that if we were truly concerned as a country and society about death in general, especially those deaths we could actually choose to do something to mitigate/reduce/end...
then why are so many so callous about the 60+ million deaths intentionally inflicted upon innocent women and children with , yup, the baby-murder industry?--because it's a business, though it is inherently a business of pure evil;
and why no stopping all folks from driving--since many more thousands are killed on roadways, and the regular flu that kills more annually every year than this coronabug, etc...etc...? Some things cost society more than others, but we cannot stop commerce at every drop of the hat situation, and this situation shows it. We cannot prevent all deaths, though we do well to try and be prudent about
not intentionally inflicting unnecessary ones.
Starting with the baby-killing, it's hard to listen to, say, far lefties scream about a few hundred coronabug deaths, many (not all) among the older and already afflicted, when these same folks give not $#it one about murdering baby girls intentionally and selfishly to cover up a decision they already made and then want a do-over on at the cost of a human life. The response and reaction to this situation is a classic example of how ridiculous it is for one group of people to shift the costs for their decisions to another innocent group who has no real choice in the matter. Now, $2 trillion dollars is added to the big-government nonsense, when we could've spent a smaller portion of that money to simply target hospitalizations only for those who really needed it from this. What a waste.